Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor was nominated for Best Actor for 12 Years a Slave, carrying a film in which the character’s survival depends on concealing everything he thinks, which is a performance almost entirely of suppression.

He came from British theatre, playing Othello at twenty-eight, and Dirty Pretty Things gave him his first significant screen lead.

Serenity, Children of Men and Doctor Strange fill out the genre work, and he is very funny in Kinky Boots.

He has directed one feature, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, which he also wrote and appeared in, shot in Malawi in Chichewa.